Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.

Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?

An honest man is not accountable for the vice and folly of his trade, and therefore ought not to refuse the exercise of it. It is the custom of his country, and there is profit in it. We must live by the world, and such as we find it, so make use of it.

Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.