In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.
For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.
The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.
No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.
Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.