There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

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

For the laws are dumb in the midst of arms.