No one dances sober, unless he is insane.
We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.
That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.
Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.
What is more agreeable than one's home?