O, the times, O, the customs!
If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.
To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.
No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.
Whatever befalls in accordance with Nature should be accounted good.
Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice.
We are not born for ourselves alone.
In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done.
Time heals all wounds.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Genius is fostered by energy.
There is nothing so absurd that it has not been said by some philosopher.
We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.
Let the punishment match the offense.
Laws are silent in time of war.
