We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.

That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.

The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible.

They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

Hunger is the best sauce.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.