He, who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decides justly, cannot be considered just.

Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.

As the world leads we follow.

As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so, through our lives, we are making ourselves ready for another birth...Therefore look forward without fear to that appointed hour- the last hour of the body, but not of the soul...That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity.

Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.