To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

While there's life, there's hope.

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.