The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

They condemn what they do not understand.

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.