Eternity is the now that does not pass away.

Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.

Love, and do what you will. If you are silent, be silent for love; or if you cry out, cry out for love. If you chastise, chastise for love; if you spare, spare for love.

Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false.

When regard for truth has been broken down or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others.

Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associated by a common acknowledgment of right, and if there is no right where there is no justice, then most certainly it follows that there is no republic where there is no justice.