There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'

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

Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.

I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature.

To live long it is necessary to live slowly.