Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun.

Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.

The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.

We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish.