We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

For as the law is set over the magistrate, even so are the magistrates set over the people. And therefore, it may be truly said, "that the magistrate is a speaking law, and the law is a silent magistrate.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. - Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit

To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.