We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.

It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.

The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces.

Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

Virtue is the beauty of the soul.

God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on.