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Kindness is produced by kindness.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.

The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.

There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

All things are full of God.

I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting.

The welfare of the people is the highest law

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

He he he ... Crazy? Cicero? He he he he! That's ... madness ...

More law, less justice.

We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

There is no place more delightful than home.

I am a Roman citizen.

The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes.

Secret enmities are more to be feared than open ones.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.

He who suffers, remembers.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

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

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

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.

It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

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

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.

The freedom of poetic license.

We all are imbued with the love of praise.

Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.

There is nothing god cannot do.

Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.

In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.

We are not born for ourselves alone.

Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow

More laws, less justice.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.

No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.

For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.

To make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.

I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead.
[Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.]

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober.
[Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]

The science of love is the philosophy of the heart

Reason should direct, and appetite obey.

Laws are dumb in the midst of arms.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

To be rather than to seem.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.

Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

Our liberality should not exceed our ability.

That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

Law stands mute in the midst of arms.

Life is short, but art lives forever.

Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.
[Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]

The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

The real friend is another self.

Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.

Work makes a callus against grief.

There is no thing which God cannot accomplish.

Before beginning, prepare carefully.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child

Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word ...

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

O tempora! O mores!
O what times (are these)! what morals!

Ability without honor is useless.

Inhumanity is harmful in every age. - Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

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

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.