No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace.

Reason should direct and appetite obey.

Let reason govern desire.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Empire and liberty.

Virtue is its own reward.