For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense.

How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit?

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.