I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

The remembrance of past misery is sweet.

Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

I hate all children of precocious talent.