According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.

In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Man is his own worst enemy.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.