Nothing Is More Disgraceful Than Insincerity.

When I Consider The Wonderful Activity Of The Mind, So Great A Memory Of What Is Past, And Such A Capacity Of Penetrating Into The Future: When I Behold Such A Number Of Arts And Sciences, And Such A Multitude Of Discoveries Hence Arising,--i Believe And Am Firmly Persuaded That A Nature Which Contains So Many Things Within Itself Cannot Be Mortal.

To Reduce Man To The Duties Of His Own City, And To Disengage Him From Duties To The Members Of Other Cities, Is To Break The Universal Society Of The Human Race.

I Prefer Tongue-tied Knowledge To Ignorant Loquacity.

To Live Long It Is Necessary To Live Slowly.

The Law Is Silent During War. [lat., Silent Leges Inter Arma.]