Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.
There is no place more delightful than one’s own fireside. Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior.
There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.
Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.
Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, ‘for friendship’s sake,’ is a discreditable one, and should not be admitted for a moment. We should ask from friends and do for friends only what is good.
The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.
This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.
The foundation of justice is good faith.
If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.
When they remain silent, they cry out.
After victory, you have more enemies.
I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.
I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting.
Always the same thing.
Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right.
A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow.
No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.
Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.