I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Strain every nerve to gain your point.

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.