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

For as the law is set over the magistrate, even so are the magistrates set over the people. And therefore, it may be truly said, "that the magistrate is a speaking law, and the law is a silent magistrate.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.

It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

Nature herself makes the wise man rich.