The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.
Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
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.
Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.
We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.