There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

On the subject of the nature of the gods, the first question is Do the gods exist or do the not? It is difficult you may say to deny that they exist. I would agree if we were arguing the matter in a public assembly, but in a private discussion of this kind, it is perfectly easy to do so.

Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.

Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.

No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

Laws are silent in time of war.