In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings.

No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

The whole of virtue consists in its practice.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit?

He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.