Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

Dogs wait for us faithfully.

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.