Law stands mute in the midst of arms.

Strict law is often great injustice.

Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

Let your desires be ruled by reason.

I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.