Pardon is granted to necessity.

It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.

Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good.

Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense.

It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.