I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.
The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.
Man is neither angel nor beast.
If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps; the majesty of these sciences would itself be venerable enough.