The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.

The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.

Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

No man in his senses will dance.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.