In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.

The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?