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

If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.

Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

After victory, you have more enemies.

This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.