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I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting.
Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.
That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.
Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
The law is silent during war. [Lat., Silent leges inter arma.]
The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).
The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.
If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.
History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.
To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.
Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.
Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun.
Peace is so beneficial that the word itself is pleasant to hear.
There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.
The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
Every man's reputation proceeds from those of his own household.
No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'
There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.
You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
Not to know what happened before means to remain forever a child.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.
What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.
It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.
Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.
Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue.
Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.
Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.
Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)
There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.
For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.
That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.
Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.
Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]
No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.
Economy is a great revenue. [Lat., Magnum vectigal est parsimonia.]
Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.
To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.