O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.

Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.

It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.

Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.