Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.

The more laws, the less justice.

The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.