In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.

The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion.

To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.

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.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.

Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).