Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.
A s laws multiply, injustice increases.
I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.
Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.
To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.
I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.
Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.
The whole glory of virtue resides in activity.
The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.
Quacks pretend to cure other men’s disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own.
It is a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them.
Religion is the pious worship of God.
When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.
Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.
We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish.
For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.
Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.
The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.
They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.
It is necessary for a Senator to be thoroughly acquainted with the constitution; and this is a knowledge of the most extensive nature; a matter of science, of diligence, of reflection, without which no Senator can possibly be fit for his office.