Strain every nerve to gain your point.

Our thoughts are free.

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

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

To live long, live slowly.

Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.