Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.
Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Man's best support is a very dear friend.
Any man may make a mistake none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.
He used to raise a storm in a teapot.
Religion is not removed by removing superstition.
Oh what times! Oh what standards!
There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.
O temporal O mores! O what times! what morals!
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of wha. I do not know.
To the sick while there is life there is hope.
Man is his own worst enemy.
Honor is the reward of virtue.
No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
As in the case of wines that improve with age the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue not a companion in vice.
What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?
The authority of those who profess to teach is often a positive hindrance to those who desire to learn.
The precept "Know yourself " was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind but likewise that we might understand our own worth.