There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.
Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.
Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.
How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.