To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.

While there's life, there's hope.

Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods.

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.

Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.