The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?

How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit?

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.