Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.

No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction.

It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature has laid the foundations or sown the seeds of the virtues. We are born to them all, all of us, and when a person comes along with the necessary stimulus, then those qualities of the personality are awakened, so to speak, from their slumber.

Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.

Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.