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.

He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing .

Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and justice.

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

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.

Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world.