The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion..

Life without learning is death..

There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach..

If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delica….

Tomorrow will give us something to think about.

Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of….

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.].

The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary..

An ancient custom obtains force of nature..

The last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. [Lat., Supremus ille dies non nostri extinctionem sed commutationem affert loci.].

You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends..

The wise man never loses his temper..

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust..

For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true….

He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave..

Economy is a great revenue. [Lat., Magnum vectigal est parsimonia.].

Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood..

Cicero is dead! Cicero is born! The laughter has filled me, filled me so very completely. I am the laughter. I am the jester. The soul that has serve….

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends..

We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel towa….

Work makes a callus against grief..