It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes.

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.