Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.

For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.

The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.