We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centers all his requirements in himself alone.

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

War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.

They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.

When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.