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

Thrift is a great revenue.

They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.

Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.