Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.

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.

For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the soul from heaven has been cast down from its dwelling on high and sunk, as it were, into the earth, a place just the opposite to godlike nature and eternity. But I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls in human bodies so there might exist beings to guard the world and after contemplating the order of heaven, might imitate it by their moderation and steadfastness in life.