To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.
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.
The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.
He is rich who wishes no more than he has.
The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
The good of the people is the greatest law.