Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.

To govern was to serve, not to rule.

Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.

The world itself is too small for the covetous.

Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that of ourselves; solitude relieves us when we are sick of company, and conversation when we are weary of being alone, so that the one cures the other. There is no man so miserable as he that is at a loss how to use his time