What is more agreeable than one's home?

We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

Let reason govern desire.

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.