The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.

Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.

When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.

Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.

For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.