Let nothing be done in your life, which will cause you fear if it becomes known to your neighbor.

Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

The things you really need are few and easy to come by; but the things you can imagine you need are infinite, and you will never be satisfied.

Justice is never anything in itself, but in the dealings of men with one another in any place whatever and at any time. It is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.