It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

A community is like the ones who govern it.

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Saving the virtues includes all other advantages

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city.