Truth is its own reward.

You cannot conceive the many without the one.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

There is no such thing as a lover's oath.

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

No human thing is of serious importance.

Never discourage anyone... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized;...

Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be...

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.