It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun.

The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.