Let reason govern desire.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.

For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.

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