To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.].

No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year..

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty..

Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past..

Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement f….

The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust..

We are not born for ourselves alone..

While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence ….

A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit..

Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by somet….

Advice is judged by results, not by intentions..

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much..

I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business….

Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers..

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it..

For the laws are dumb in the midst of arms..

A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he call….

For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving t….

History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity..

The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated..

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself..