Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.

Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.

It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.

I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.

Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.