He is rich who wishes no more than he has.
Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.
Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.
Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
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.
To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.