It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.

Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.