It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.

Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.

Speech is the mirror of the mind.

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.

To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.