He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.
Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.
Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.
No obligation to do the impossible is binding.
Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.
The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.
No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.
The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.
The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.