The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.

I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.

Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.

No one dances sober, unless he is insane.

We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.

What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?