"It is impossible to improve the world if first the man does not improve."

"Honesty is for the most part, less profitable than dishonesty."

"It is by justice, that we can authenticate a man's value or nullity, the absence of justice, is the absence of what makes him man."

"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another."

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."

"The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit which is common to them and all men. And hence they are very bad company, for they can talk about nothing but the praises of wealth."

"Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know."

"Wealth is well known to be a great comforter."

"If a man says that it is right to give everyone his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies but kindness to his friends, he was not wise who said so, for he spoke not the truth, for in no case has it appeared to be just to injure any one."

"Love is the joy of the good the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods."