Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.
The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.
While there's life, there's hope.
Thrift is of great revenue.
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of...
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.