Not to know what happened before means to remain forever a child.

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.

True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions... It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely.

Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.

The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.