No sane man will dance.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
A man of courage is also full of faith.
In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
A home without books is a body without soul.
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
More law, less justice.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
Never injure a friend, even in jest.
The sinews of war are infinite money.
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
