True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions... It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely.

They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.

True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions... It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely.

It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.