How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit?

Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense.

Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

Man is his own worst enemy.

Let every man practice the art that he knows best.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.