Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.

All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

The first bond of society is marriage.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.

Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

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