"Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due."

"For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked."

"A man of courage is also full of faith."

"The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct."

"The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal."

"The safety of the people shall be the highest law."

"No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive."

"The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others."

"No obligation to do the impossible is binding."

"It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number."

"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started."

"He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason."

"The best interpreter of the law is custom."

"Empire and liberty."

"Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense."

"Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide."

"If a man should ascend alone into heaven and behold clearly the structure of the universe and the beauty of the stars, there would be no pleasure for him in the awe-inspiring sight, which would have filled him with delight if he had had someone to whom he could describe what he had seen. Nature abhors solitude."

"I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet."

"What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes."

"It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own."

"More law, less justice."

"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?"

"Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature."

"No sane man will dance."

"So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge."

"Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it."

"Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things human and divine conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection."

"In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy."

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

"He used to raise a storm in a teapot."

"The false is nothing but an imitation of the true."

"Hatred is inveterate anger."

"Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered."

"Never injure a friend, even in jest."

"The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions."

"There are no snares more dangerous than those which lurk under the guise of duty or the name of relationship."

"The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless."

"We are bound by the law, so that we may be free."

"I criticize by creation - not by finding fault."

"Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?"

"Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money."

"Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?"

"There is also a tradition about Socrates. He liked walking, it is recorded, until a late hour of the evening, and when someone asked him why he did this he said he was trying to work up an appetite for his dinner."

"When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind."

"Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage."

"Any man may make a mistake none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says."

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

"In time of war the laws are silent."

"It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error."

"The good of the people is the greatest law."