No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

For as the law is set over the magistrate, even so are the magistrates set over the people. And therefore, it may be truly said, "that the magistrate is a speaking law, and the law is a silent magistrate.