I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?

No wind favors he who has no destined port.

Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after.

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.