In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.
Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.
It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.
I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.
Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.
I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.
Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.
Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.
Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.
Nature herself makes the wise man rich.
The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.
To give and receive advice – the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation – is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.
No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.
This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.
Friends, though absent, are still present.
Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?
Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation.
The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.
Like associates with like.
Virtue is its own reward.