Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life..

For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well..

The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common..

So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a ….

The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible..

The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus assert….

Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.].

True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions... It is a si….

Secret enmities are more to be feared than open ones..

Diligence which, as it avails in all things, is also of the utmost moment in pleading causes. Diligence is to be particularly cultivated by us; it is….

All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed t….

When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes wi….

What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in a….

A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely….

Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own..

The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage..

I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory..

In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made..

Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war)..

In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist..

True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting..