“Life is nothing without friendship.”

Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.

The welfare of the people is the highest law.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.

The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

We are all servants of the laws in order to be free.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice.

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?

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

Freedom is participation in power.

It is a great thing to know your vices.

For walk where we will, we tread upon some story.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

Books: our unfailing companions.

Friends are people you can talk to, without words when you have to.

The best feeling in the world is knowing that you actually mean something to someone.

You are who you surround yourself with.

The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes.

You always need a good friend to lift you up, tell you the truth and if you’re lucky, sing a song with!

Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.

Life is very short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting my friends.

In every tyrant’s heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.