Talent Is Culture With Insolence.

A Friend Is Simply One Soul In Two Bodies.

A Fool Contributes Nothing Worth Hearing And Takes Offense At Everything.

Even The Best Of Men In Authority Are Liable To Be Corrupted By Passion. We May Conclude Then That The Law Is Reason Without Passion, And It Is Therefore Preferable To Any Individual.

It Is Best To Rise From Life As From A Banquet, Neither Thirsty Nor Drunken.

The Only Stable State Is The One In Which All Men Are Equal Before The Law.