Prosperity engenders sloth.
Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.
Great contests generally excite great animosities.
There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
The sun has not yet set for all time.
There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.
There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.
Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
Haste is blind and improvident.
Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
The army from Asia introduced a foreign luxury to Rome; it was then the meals began to require more dishes and more expenditure . . . the cook, who had up to that time been employed as a slave of low price, become dear: what had been nothing but a metier was elevated to an art.
The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
Better late than never.
Wit is the flower of the imagination.
Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.
Temerity is not always successful.
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