“Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.”
“He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.”
“In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.”
“I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.”
“You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.”
“There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.”
“Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.”
“Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.”
“The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.”
“The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.”
“That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.”
“The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.”
“A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body.”
“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”
“There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.”
“There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.”
“You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.”
“The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.”
“Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.”
“He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.”
“Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.”
“Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.”
“What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?”
“I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.”
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.”
“It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.”
“Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.”
“It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.”
“Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.”