Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication.... Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths.... But in liberty moderation is wholesome, and so it is in wine.... We ought not indulge too often, for fear the mind contract a bad habit, yet it is right to draw it toward elation and release and to banish dull sobriety for a little.

Whom they have injured they also hate.

Simple is the language of truth.

However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.

You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.

Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.

Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.