There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
The best cure for anger is delay.
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Whom they have injured, they also hate.
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.
He has committed the crime who profits by it.
It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.
Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.
Freedom can’t be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth.
One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
He, who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decides justly, cannot be considered just.
Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.