Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success.

Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home

Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.

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

Let us not go over the old ground but rather prepare for what is to come.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.