To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass.

The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.

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.

We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.