Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.

The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?