He will live ill who does not know how to die well.
If virtue precede us every step will be safe.
It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one’s impulses.
It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.
Not to feel one’s misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.
Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.
The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.
The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.
Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.
A hated government does not long survive.
It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
A man’s ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained, his ability also is sound and sober. Conversely, when the one degenerates, the other is contaminated.
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
Economy is in itself a great source of revenue.
There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.