A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

All great men are partially inspired.

Diligence which, as it avails in all things, is also of the utmost moment in pleading causes. Diligence is to be particularly cultivated by us; it is to be constantly exerted; it is capable of effecting almost everything.

Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.

You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.

A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.