It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.