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

Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.

The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

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.

Every animal loves itself.

The foundation of justice is good faith.