The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.

That which takes effect by chance is not an art.

Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.

It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.

It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.