If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed.

A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.

Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.