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

A s laws multiply, injustice increases.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.