 You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself. |
| The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others. |
| Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered. |
| 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. |
| What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk. Topics: Friendship |
| Sweet is the memory of past troubles. |
| I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own. |
| In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought. |
| If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live. |
| In time of war the laws are silent. |
| It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much. |
| 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. |
| Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent. |
| It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment. |
| He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. |
| What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine. |
| The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due. |
| Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law. |
| Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. |
| As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind. |
