Nothing Endures Except Truth.

Indolence Is The Sleep Of The Mind.

We Must Expect Everything And Fear Everything From Time And From Men.

It Is Not In Everyone's Power To Secure Wealth, Office, Or Honors; But Everyone May Be Good, Generous, And Wise.

As It Is Natural To Believe Many Things Without Proof, So, Despite All Proof, Is It Natural To Disbelieve Others.

The Generality Of Men Are So Bound Within The Sphere Of Their Circumstances That They Have Not Even The Courage To Get Out Of Them Through Their Ideas, And If We See A Few Whom, In A Way, Speculation Over Great Things Makes Incapable Of Mean Ones, We Find Still More With Whom The Practice Of Small Things Takes Away The Feeling For Great Ones.