If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.

Your happiness depends on you alone.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.

All men are alike when asleep.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.