We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.

Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

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

Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.