A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him

Laws are inoperative in war

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.

True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

Friends, though absent, are still present.

The shifts of fortune tests the reliability of friends

Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they...

The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Life is nothing without friendship.

In the common people there is no wisdom, no penetration, no power of judgment

If you would abolish avarice, you must abolish its mother, luxury

Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.

I am a Roman citizen.

Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman...

If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.

For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this...

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

The First Bond of Society is Marriage.

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

A careful physician, before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his...

We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

Friends are proved by adversity.

The contract they sent over called for a 76 percent price increase.

O philosophy, you leader of life.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures