Taxes Are The Sinews Of The State.

The Beginnings Of All Things Are Small.

This Is Our Special Duty, That If Anyone Specially Needs Our Help, We Should Give Him Such Help To The Utmost Of Our Power.

The Function Of Wisdom Is To Discriminate Between Good And Evil.

For Many Wish Not So Much To Be, As To Seem To Be, Endowed With Real Virtue.

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, Has Lent Us Life, As We Do A Sum Of Money, Only No Certain Day Is Fixed For Payment. What Reason Then To Complain If She Demands It At Pleasure, Since It Was On This Condition That You Received It.