The worse a person is the less he feels it.
No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.
There is no power greater than true affection.
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
Truth never perishes.
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit.
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
Light cares speak, great ones are speechless. -Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent.
Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind.
Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.
In every good man a God doth dwell.
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.
Resistance to oppression is second nature.
It’s in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein.
Those alone are wise who know how to love.
The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.