Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. - Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit

The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.

Justice renders to every one his due.

Friends, though absent, are still present.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.