To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.

In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.

There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

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

To live long it is necessary to live slowly.

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.