A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries the banished man home, and places all mortals on the same level, insomuch that life itself were a punishment without it.

For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.