Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.

Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.

Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.