In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.

But if you should take the bond of goodwill out of the universe no house or city could stand, nor would even the tillage of the fields abide. If that statement is not clear, then you may understand how great is the power of friendship and of concord from a consideration of the results of enmity and disagreement. For what house is so strong, or what state so enduring that it cannot be utterly overthrown by animosities and division?

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.

In times of war, the law falls silent.