Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Will and intellect are one and the same.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.