Ability without honor is useless.
The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
Never injure a friend, even in jest.
Whatever you do, do with all your might.
No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.