It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.

The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.

Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.

Style, like the human body, is specially beautiful when, so to say, the veins are not prominent, and the bones cannot be counted, but when a healthy and sound blood fills the limbs, and shows itself in the muscles, and the very sinews become beautiful under a ruddy glow and graceful outline.

Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.

You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter