People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.
A letter does not blush.
Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.
Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.
Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.
No obligation to do the impossible is binding.
Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.
The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.