The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.

The greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better Possession of real ones.

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

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

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.

Men, believing in myths, will always fear something terrible, everlasting punishment as certain or probable . . . Men base all these fears not on mature opinions, but on irrational fancies, that they are more disturbed by fear of the unknown than by facing facts. Peace of mind lies in being delivered from all these fears.

The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain.