Good Christians should never avenge injuries.

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable

Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.

But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.

Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.