The dispersing and scattering our names into many mouths, we call making them more great.

He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.

Oh, a friend! How true is that old saying, that the enjoyment of one is sweeter and more necessary than that of the elements of water and fire!

The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve.

The judgment is an utensil proper for all subjects, and will have an oar in everything.