Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present.

Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offenses, and they cannot hurt your feelings.

Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.

When you are alone you are all your own.

All our knowledge originates in opinion.

The greater the man's soul, the deeper he loves.