Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.
To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him.
Brave deeds are wasted when hidden.
Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.
...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.