Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us.
...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.