Laws are silent in time of war.
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul...
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
In time of war the laws are silent.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.