Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.

When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

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

To live long, live slowly.

In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Like readily consorts with like.