The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?

The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.