Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.
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 to be constantly exerted; it is capable of effecting almost everything.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.
He he he... Crazy? Cicero? He he he he! That's... madness.
Nature abhors annihilation.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]
Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.
Peace is freedom in tranquility.
In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.
I hate all children of precocious talent.
Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.
He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]
Pardon is granted to necessity.
If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.
That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]
There is nothing god cannot do.
The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body. [Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.]
Hatred is settled anger.
A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.
Religion is the pious worship of God.
It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.
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