Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
What is true belongs to me!
If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.