For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.

Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.