Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.

History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated by a combination of rights. And by this definition it appears that a multitude of men may be just as tyrannical as a single despot and indeed this is the most odious of all tyrannies, since no monster can be more barbarous than the mob, which assumes the name and mask of the people.

There is no moment without some duty.