The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.

We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.