We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

Time discovers truth.

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.

Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.

The young man must store up, the old man must use.

An unpopular rule is never long maintained.