A friend is, as it were, a second self.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'
The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.