For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

Let each man have according to his deserts.

The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.