It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.

It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.

No man in his senses will dance.

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.

Nothing is more becoming in a great man than courtesy and forbearance

There is in fact a true law namely right reason, which is in accordance with nature, applies to all men and is unchangeable and eternal. ... It will not lay down one rule at Rome and another at Athens, nor will it be one rule today and another tomorrow. But there will be one law eternal and unchangeable binding all times and upon all peoples.

Man must suffer to be wise.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.