What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
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.
What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.
To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Calamus fortior gladio.