Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret.

Know or listen to those who know.

One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.

You may be obliged to wage war, but not to use poisoned arrows.