Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy..

If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion..

Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.].

I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget..

...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a ….

No one has leave to sin..

More laws, less justice..

Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels..

After victory, you have more enemies..

It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'.

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man..

This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite..

The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities, but coeval with that Divine….

In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart..

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone….

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.].

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more t….

There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover the infinity of thing….

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften..

For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?.

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed..