Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.

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.

Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.

We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.

Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills.

I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.

Life is short, but art lives forever.