Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time, nor does it take away the freedom of speech which proceeds from justice; but it gives to us the knowledge of what is just and lawful, separating from them the unjust and refuting them.

It is not things in themselves which trouble us, but our opinions of things.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.

At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.