To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.

Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth.