"Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."

"The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed."

"The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind."

"Thou shouldst eat to live not live to eat."

"Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error."

"What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"

"Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable."

"He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing."

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

"The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends."

"Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason."

"To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace."

"Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. (To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.)"

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

"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words."

"Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law."

"Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes."

"Sweet is the memory of past troubles."

"Old age is by nature rather talkative."

"No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear."

"Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error."

"There are more men ennobled by study than by nature."

"There is in superstition a senseless fear of God."

"The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory."

"The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured."

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

"There is something pleasurable in calm remembrance of a past sorrow."

"As in the case of wines that improve with age the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful."

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

"As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind."

"Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything."

"The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure."

"A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth."

"Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow."

"Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world."

"Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent."

"When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff."

"The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend."

"The sinews of war are infinite money."

"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."

"No man was ever great without a touch of divine afflatus."

"Just as apples when unripe are torn from trees, but when ripe and mellow drop down, so it is violence that takes life from young men, ripeness from old. This ripeness is so delightful to me that, as I approach nearer to death, I seem, as it were, to be sighting land, and to be coming to port at last after a long voyage."

"If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it."

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

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

"If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost he need never regret his limited ability."

"One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees."

"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."

"True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions."

"Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body."