Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.

Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.

The more laws, the less justice.

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.