We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
The good of the people is the greatest law.
Nature abhors annihilation
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.
You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
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.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.
To give counsel as well as to take it is a feature of true friendship.
If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.
Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.
Dogs wait for us faithfully.
Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
Whatever you do, do with all your might.
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
