It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

Strict law is often great injustice.

The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.

There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal.