There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?