The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.

Let reason govern desire.

The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.