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Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.
No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.
A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.
It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.
There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.
To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass.
Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.
There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.
I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.
Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening?
This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.
There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.
The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.
Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.
Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.
We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.
I have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn. [Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.]
Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.
If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.
Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.
We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.
I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence.
Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and watch you, as they have done already.
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.
It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.
There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside. Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior.
The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.
Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centers all his requirements in himself alone.
Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.
The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business.
But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.
As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.
Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.
The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.
The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.
Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]
I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.
The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions.
Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.