What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.

It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.