Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

By doubting we come at truth.

No power is strong enough to be lasting, if it labours under the weight of fear.

The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong