Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.

Ability without honor is useless.

Reason should direct, and appetite obey.

Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.