We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.

The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?