Reason should direct, and appetite obey.

There is nothing god cannot do.

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.