The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible.

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

Generosity should never exceed ability.

Not to know what happened before means to remain forever a child.

Let reason govern desire.

A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.