I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.

Justice has no independent existence; it results from mutual contracts, and establishes itself wherever there is a mutual engagement to guard against doing or sustaining mutual injury.

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

The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death... just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

A world is a circumscribed portion of sky... it is a piece cut off from the infinite.

We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously.