When one is transported by rage, it is best to observe attentively the effects on those who deliver themselves over to the same passion.

It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.

Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.

The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind.

I see the cure is not worth the pain.