No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!

Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.

You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.

He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.

There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.