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

In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.

For the laws are dumb in the midst of arms.

The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men

What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.