A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.

A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.

Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.

One can not be just if one is not humane.

Vice foments war; it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.

Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.

Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits.