Time is the herald of truth.

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.

Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)