It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.