The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first.

Justice is the truth in action.

Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.

If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.

All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.

Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be a matter of choice: it is almost always a matter of necessity.