If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.
Nothing is more disgraceful than insincerity.
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.