I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.

Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city.

A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.

Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.