I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.

We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.

When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to imagine the snarling animal a friend and offer your hand, as Pompey does." "Perhaps you would have us climb a tree!