It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.