Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?

Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.