Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the soul from heaven has been cast down from its dwelling on high and sunk, as it were, into the earth, a place just the opposite to godlike nature and eternity. But I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls in human bodies so there might exist beings to guard the world and after contemplating the order of heaven, might imitate it by their moderation and steadfastness in life.

Those who do not know history will forever remain children

Honor is the reward of virtue.