One's sense of honor is the only thing that does not grow old, and the last pleasure, when one is worn out with age, is not, as the poet said, making money, but having the respect of one's fellow men.

Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.

With reference to the narrative of events, far from permitting myself to derive it from the first source that came to hand, I did not even trust my own impressions, but it rests partly on what I saw myself, partly on what others saw for me, the accuracy of the report always being tried by the most severe and detailed tests possible. My conclusions have cost me some labour from the want of coincidence between accounts of the same occurrences by different eye-witnesses, arising sometimes from imperfect memory, sometimes from undue partiality for one side or the other.

Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.

The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.

We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.

You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.