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

To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.

The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.

If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.