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

"We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory."

"No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration."

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

"Nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere.(No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.)"

"Courage is the virtue which champions the cause of right."

"I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war."

"I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of wha. I do not know."

"In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible."

"Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system."

"What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious."

"I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity."

"We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings."

"Old age especially an honoured old age has so great authority that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth."

"It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment."

"Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak."

"Loyalty is what we seek in friendship."

"If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live."

"Certain signs precede certain events."

"It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal."

"Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty."

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

"Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul."

"If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second or even the third place."

"Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind."

"Before beginning, plan carefully."

"An unjust peace is better than a just war."

"Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom."

"What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?"

"It is fortune not wisdom that rules man's life."

"Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice."

"A letter does not blush."

"Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself."

"Man's best support is a very dear friend."

"Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!"

"A friend is, as it were, a second self."

"Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him."

"O temporal O mores! O what times! what morals!"

"To the sick while there is life there is hope."

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."

"Freedom is a possession of inestimable value."

"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all other virtues."

"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation."

"For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives."

"Oh what times! Oh what standards!"

"All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief."

"We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue."

"For walk where we will, we tread upon some story."

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

"I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors."