The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.
Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
True nobility is exempt from fear.
The science of love is the philosophy of the heart
What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.