No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.
To freemen, threats are impotent.
You may never be less alone than when you are alone.
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.
Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.