Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.

Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.