We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Peace is so beneficial that the word itself is pleasant to hear.

The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).