Happiness Is The Reward Of Virtue.

A Likely Impossibility Is Always Preferable To An Unconvincing Possibility.

No One Chooses What Does Not Rest With Himself, But Only What He Thinks Can Be Attained By His Own Act.

Courage Is A Mean With Regard To Fear And Confidence.

Courage Is The First Virtue That Makes All Other Virtues Possible.

Governments Which Have A Regard To The Common Interest Are Constituted In Accordance With Strict Principles Of Justice, And Are Therefore True Forms; But Those Which Regard Only The Interest Of The Rulers Are All Defective And Perverted Forms, For They Are Despotic, Whereas A State Is A Community Of Freemen.