If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.

The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

If anyone cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of feeling at all. From the enduring wonder of the heavens flows all grace and power. If anyone thinks it is mindless then he himself must be out of his mind.

Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.