If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.
Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.
The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions.
The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.
The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.