What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
The best interpreter of the law is custom.
A home without books is a body without soul.
In times of war, the law falls s
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
Hatred is settled anger.
The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
To live is to think.
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.