Let your desires be ruled by reason.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

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.

What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

Saving the virtues includes all other advantages