We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.

They condemn what they do not understand.

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

Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.

There is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher.