Those who do not know history will forever remain children

To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

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.

The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.