What is dignity without honesty?

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write on contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.

Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my latest breath.

There is a difference between justice and consideration in one's relations to one's fellow men. It is the function of justice not to do wrong to one's fellow men; of considerateness, not to wound their feelings.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.