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.
All great men are partially inspired.
This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.
Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.
What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.
What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor?
Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.
Man was born for two things – thinking and acting.
A wise man does nothing by constraint.
All soils are not fertile.
Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.
Old age is by nature rather talkative.
No man in his senses will dance.