The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

Peace is freedom in tranquility.

Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.

The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.