The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
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.
What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
Freedom is participation in power.
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.
Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
Dogs wait for us faithfully.
The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another’s heart.
We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.