Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.

We cannot work for others without working for ourselves.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.