What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor?

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

That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.

Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.

Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.