The more laws, the less justice.

It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.

Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun.