Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.

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

Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.

There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight.

The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.

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

Nothing is ours except time.