It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.

For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.

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

The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.

No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.