Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.

For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?

No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.