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

It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.

We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.

If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you in losing your cruelty? It merely deprives you of the food of lions and vultures...let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.

If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.

We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more coarse and rude in the mind than the precious metals, or more slavish and dirty than the people that dig and work them? And yet they defile our minds more than our bodies, and make the possessor fouler than the artificer of them. Rich men, in fine, are only the greater slaves.