A room without books is like a body without a soul.
For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret – that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.
Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions.
Dum spiro, spero.
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
The Jews belong to a dark and repulsive force. One knows how numerous this clique is, how they stick together and what power they exercise through their unions. They are a nation of rascals and deceivers.
Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one’s self equal with the good.
I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.