Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

Eat... to live, and do not live to eat.

Never esteem people (including yourself) more because they have money, nor think less of anyone (including yourself) because they lack it. Virtue is the only just reason for respecting anyone, lack of virtue the only reason for holding anyone in low regard.

Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature. No one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.

Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.

For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience