Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

For a wrongdoer to be undetected is difficult; and for him to have confidence that his concealment will continue is impossible.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.

A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day.

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency.