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

It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.

Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

No one has leave to sin.

All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

There is in fact a true law namely right reason, which is in accordance with nature, applies to all men and is unchangeable and eternal. ... It will not lay down one rule at Rome and another at Athens, nor will it be one rule today and another tomorrow. But there will be one law eternal and unchangeable binding all times and upon all peoples.

To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.