Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.

No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.

If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.