When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.
No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
An unpopular rule is never long maintained.
Delay not; swift the flight of fortune’s greatest favours.
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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.