There is no life without friendship

Work makes a callus against grief.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

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

For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?