Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.