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

All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.