I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.
There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.
No man in his senses will dance.
It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.
For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.
It is fortune not wisdom that rules man's life.
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all other virtues.
To live long it is necessary to live slowly.
No man was ever great without a touch of divine afflatus.
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things human and divine conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
When you are aspiring to the highest place it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
There is something pleasurable in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.
Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.
Socrates indeed when he was asked of what country he called himself said "Of the world" for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.
I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.
The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.