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

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

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

Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.

The whole glory of virtue resides in activity.