I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence.

Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.

Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.

The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.