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

No power is strong enough to be lasting, if it labours under the weight of fear.

Strain every nerve to gain your point.

Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.

Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.

It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.