Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

When war is raging the laws are dumb.

Friends, though absent, are still present.

I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.