Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him, gives me a sort of right to do so.

Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.

The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.

Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.

You will die not because you're ill, but because you're alive.

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.