When you have well thought out your subject, words will come spontaneously.
Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.
All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.
Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.
Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that now are in honor.
I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass.