It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.

It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.