It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.

It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.

Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.

Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.