In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.

In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such exceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable with it.

Law stands mute in the midst of arms.

Laws are inoperative in war

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.