It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity.

Expediency often silences justice.

Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts

As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so obvious that wherever there is life there is a place for it; so cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense, and so easy that the sluggard may be so likewise without labor.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.