Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.

The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.

The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.

He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times.

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

All food must be capable of being digested, and that what produces digestion is warmth; that is why everything that has soul in it possesses warmth.

The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure