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.
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
Thrift is of great revenue.
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.
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
While there's life, there's hope.
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
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...
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
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.