I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.