Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?
Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.
The whole of virtue consists in its practice.
In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.
It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.
This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.
Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.
We all are imbued with the love of praise.
Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.
It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.
The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.
He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.
He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.
That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.
The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.
Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.
Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.
All soils are not fertile.
I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.
Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.
Hunger is the best sauce.
It is pleasant to recall past troubles.
The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.
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