It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.

Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.

The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.

He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination.

There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to us because such exalted majesty conceals itself in the holiest part of its sanctuary, forbidding access to any power save that of the spirit. How many heavenly bodies revolve unseen by human eye!

A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty