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

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

Probability is the very guide of life.

Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

It is a great thing to know your vices.