He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it.

The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.

You will die not because you're ill, but because you're alive.

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

This is the difference between us Romans and the Etruscans: We believe that lightning is caused by clouds colliding, whereas they believe that clouds collide in order to create lightning. Since they attribute everything to gods, they are led to believe not that events have a meaning because they have happened, but that they happen in order to express a meaning.

There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.

You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.