In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.
Virtue is its own reward.
If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.