Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain.
Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.
We pardon familiar vices.
No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.
Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by patience it approveth what it works.
Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles; she selects neither house nor fortune; she is satisfied with a human being without adjuncts.
Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
Men practice war; beasts do not.
The fortune of war is always doubtful.
Golden roofs break men’s rest.
Wisdom comes to no one by chance.
A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.
A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.
An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.
As many servants so many enemies.
Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.