Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.

Time is the herald of truth.

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.

History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.