Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
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.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
The more laws, the less justice.
Ability without honor is useless.
Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
Laws are silent in time of war.
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
Freedom is participation in power.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Politicians are not born; they are excreted.
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.
