Probability is the very guide of life.

Freedom is participation in power.

Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.

I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.

There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.