Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
The aim of justice is to give everyone his due.
Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.