Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.

Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.

Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?