History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.

I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.