Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated by a combination of rights. And by this definition it appears that a multitude of men may be just as tyrannical as a single despot and indeed this is the most odious of all tyrannies, since no monster can be more barbarous than the mob, which assumes the name and mask of the people.

Strain every nerve to gain your point.

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

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.