Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Of the land which the Romans gained by conquest from their neighbours, part they sold publicly, and turned the remainder into common; this common land they assigned to such of the citizens as were poor and indigent, for which they were to pay only a small acknowledgment into the public treasury. But when the wealthy men began to offer larger rents, and drive the poorer people out, it was enacted by law that no person whatever should enjoy more than five hundred acres of ground.

We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.

They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.

Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce.

There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.