Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
There is no power greater than true affection.
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
Speech is the mirror of the mind.
It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.