"Nihil tam absurde dici potest, quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosophorum. There is nothing so ridiculous but some philosopher has said it."
"To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?"
"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book."
"Pleasure is the absence of pain."
"I criticize by creation - not by finding fault."
"The spirit is the true self."
"Nothing quite new is perfect."
"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt."
"Never injure a friend, even in jest."
"Justice renders to everyone his due."
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."
"A home without books is a body without soul."
"No one can give you better advice than yourself."
"I remind you, sir, that extreme patriotism in the defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in the pursuit of justice no virtue."
"My precept to all who build is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner."
"One should be moderate in his jests."
"That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind."
"What is dignity without honesty?"
"For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends?"
"The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory."
"A friend is, as it were, a second self."
"We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory."
"In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names."
"By doubting we come at truth."
"We should measure affection, not like youngsters by the ardor of its passion, but by its strength and constancy."