No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.
Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.
There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.
The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one’s home port after a long voyage.
There is no place more delightful than home.
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.
History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.
Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.
Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.
Be a pattern to others and then all will go well.
Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. – Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit.
To live long, live slowly.
Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.
Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
What is more agreeable than one’s home?
The freedom of poetic license.
The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.
While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place.
The popular breeze – Aura popularis.