Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

Justice renders to every one his due.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.