Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

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

War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.

The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.

The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.