If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.

In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.

It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor?

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

Let reason govern desire.