"We are twice armed if we fight with faith."
"Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or better than cohesion and unity?"
"Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the fill the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas receives nothing from like.,."
"A life without investigation is not worth living."
"I have good hope that there is something after death."
"You don’t seem to love money too much. And those who haven’t made their own money are usually like you. But those who have made it for themselves are twice as fond of it as those who haven’t."
"He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity."
"The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so."
"Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an arithmetical training, although they may derive no other advantage from it, always become much quicker than they would have been."
"Isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is?"