An unjust peace is better than a just war.
The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
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.
The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
Laws are silent in time of war.
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.
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,...
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
For walk where we will, we tread upon some story.
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
In time of war the laws are silent.
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
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.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.