Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
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.
The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
In time of war the laws are silent.
Laws are silent in time of war.
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
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.
Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never b...
For walk where we will, we tread upon some story.