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.
Crime oft recoils upon the author’s head.
Crime requires further crime to conceal it.
Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.
Do what you should, not what you may.
Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.
Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.
Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.
He is most powerful who governs himself.
He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.
He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.