The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.

Let your desires be ruled by reason.

It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.

There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings.

Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)