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.

Life is short and art is long.

The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

Time discovers truth.

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.