Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.
The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.
O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!
Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
More law, less justice.
The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.
If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.
