Freedom can't be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth.

It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

There is no evil that does not offer inducements. Vices tempt you by the rewards which they offer.

I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.

Men practice war; beasts do not.

Disease is not of the body but of the place.