It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"

We make allowance for necessity.

Reason should direct, and appetite obey.

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

Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?

Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.