This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

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.

If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.