The freedom of poetic license.

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

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.