Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.
There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.
Make haste to live, and consider each day a life.
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
Dignity increases more easily than it begins.
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.