The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the soul from heaven has been cast down from its dwelling on high and sunk, as it were, into the earth, a place just the opposite to godlike nature and eternity. But I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls in human bodies so there might exist beings to guard the world and after contemplating the order of heaven, might imitate it by their moderation and steadfastness in life.

Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?

Probability is the very guide of life.

History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow

Through doubt we arrive at the truth.