If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.

In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.

That which is apprehended by intelligence and reason is always in the same state; but that which is conceived by opinion with the help of sensation and without reason, is always in a process of becoming and perishing and never really is.

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.