Kindness is produced by kindness.

When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.