The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.

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

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

No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.

Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.