We all are imbued with the love of praise.

If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

They condemn what they do not understand.

If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

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

To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business.