When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.

If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.

Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.

There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover the infinity of things, the immensity of Nature, the heavens, the earth, and the seas; this is that branch which has taught us religion, moderation, magnanimity, and that has rescued the soul from obscurity; to make her see all things above and below, first and last, and between both; it is this that furnishes us wherewith to live well and happily, and guides us to pass our lives without displeasure and without offence.

Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.