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.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

Everyone has his besetting sin.

The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.