It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.
Never injure a friend, even in jest.
No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
While there’s life, there’s hope.
The more laws, the less justice.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
What is permissible is not always honorable.
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?