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

The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.