Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.

Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men in their various relations with each other, in whatever circumstances they may be, that they will neither injure nor be injured.

So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.

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

I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.

Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.