A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?
For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
Hatred is settled anger.
I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
The best interpreter of the law is custom.
We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
To some extent I liken slavery to death.
This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.