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

He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

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

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.