The works of nature must all be accounted good.

I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.

Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.

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.

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.