Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.

Laws are silent in times of war.

It is a true saying that "One falsehood leads easily to another".

It is a great thing to know our vices.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Force overcome by force.

By force of arms.

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him...

Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure...

As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like."

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.