That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.

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

For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.

Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws.

He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.

The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.

There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.