The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

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.

Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.