Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death--what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

Many things are formidable, and none more formidable than man.

One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.

Nobody loves life like an old man.

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.