Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day.

A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth, and spreading fertility; it is, therefore, more delightful to give than to receive.

Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead… because they are dead.

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.

Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.