I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.

Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.

Men are least safe from what success induces them not to fear.

The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.

Prosperity engenders sloth.

You know how to vanquish, Hannibal, but you do not know how to profit from victory.

No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.

Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.

No law is quite appropriate for all.

By flying, men often rush into the midst of calamities.