Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
Resistance to oppression is second nature.
No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance; but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to the giver and receiver; whereas those favors are in some sort scandalous that make a man ashamed of his patron.
Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.