Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

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.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

All soils are not fertile.