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

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

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

Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

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