“All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.”
“What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.”
“Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.”
“To the sick, while there is life there is hope.”
“Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.”
“The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.”
“Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.”
“The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.”
“Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.”
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
“The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.”
“Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.”
“Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.”
“There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.”
“I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.”
“In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.”
“We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”
“There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.”
“There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.”
“Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.”
“People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.”
“I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.”
“No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.”
“A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.”
“In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.”
“There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace.”
“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.”
“When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.”
“The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.”
“A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.”