Hatred is inveterate anger.

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

They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.

The process, indeed, of nature is this: that just in the same manner as our birth was the beginning of things with us, so death will be the end; and as we were noways concerned with anything before we were born, so neither shall we be after we are dead.

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

When I notice how carefully arranged his hair is and when I watch him adjusting the parting with one finger, I cannot imagine that this man could conceive of such a wicked thing as to destroy the Roman constitution.

Empire and liberty.

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

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

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

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

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.