We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.

O philosophy, you leader of life.

There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass.

There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.