Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Do not grudge your brother his rest. He has at last become free, safe and immortal, and ranges joyous through the boundless heavens; he has left this low-lying region and has soared upwards to that place which receives in its happy bosom the souls set free from the chains of matter. Your brother has not lost the light of day, but has obtained a more enduring light. He has not left us, but has gone on before.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

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

Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.

It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.

With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.