Occupation: Philosopher
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men..
A true friend is a sort of second self..
The sinews of war are infinite money..
A letter does not blush..
If anyone cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of feeling at all. From the enduring wonder o….
Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived..
Let a man practice the profession which he best knows..
For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue..
No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration..
Whatever you do, do with all your might..
Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination..
It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood..
The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise..
We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us..
Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions..
Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed….
They are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts, just as the Bretons and the Germans are born with blond hair. I would not be in t….
Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!.
He is rich who wishes no more than he has..
A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy..
Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?.