What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

He is rich who wishes no more than he has.