The aim of justice is to give everyone his due.
For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.
If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .
Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
A community is like the ones who govern it.
The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.
Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.
No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.
Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.
There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.
The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one’s home port after a long voyage.
There is no place more delightful than home.
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.
History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.
Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.
Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.
Be a pattern to others and then all will go well.
Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. – Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit.