Men's language is as their lives.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries the banished man home, and places all mortals on the same level, insomuch that life itself were a punishment without it.

There exists no more difficult art than living.

Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.