In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

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

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.

Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself. They learn that they have to defend their own bodies and persons lives from violence of any and every kind by all means within their power.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

We make allowance for necessity.