A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.

More law, less justice.

All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

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

Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.