Life without the courage for death is slavery.

Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.

Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.

In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.

Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.

He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean; and gives inestimable reputation to his parents. We should never have heard of Sophroniscus, but for his son, Socrates; nor of Ariosto and Gryllus, if it had not been for Xenophon and Plato.