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

Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

Laws are silent in time of war.

It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.

When war is raging the laws are dumb.

Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

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?