How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.
Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man.