It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.

While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place.

Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'

Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.

It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.

A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.