To some extent I liken slavery to death.
Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. (To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.)
Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.
Hatred is inveterate anger.
More law, less justice.
The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Two distinctive traits especially identify beyond a doubt a strong and dominant character. One trait is contempt for external circumstances, when one is convinced that men ought to respect, to desire,...
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
The sinews of war are infinite money.