In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.
I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.
Religion is not removed by removing superstition.
What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.
A community is like the ones who govern it.
If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.