A person who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he or she ought only to consider whether in doing anything he or she is doing right or wrong- acting the part of a good person or a bad person.

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.

Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?