The Jews belong to a dark and repulsive force. One knows how numerous this clique is, how they stick together and what power they exercise through their unions. They are a nation of rascals and deceivers.
Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one’s self equal with the good.
I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.
A man of courage is also full of faith.
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.
Politicians are not born; they are excreted.
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.
It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.
The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.