There is no evil without its compensation.
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
To make a commencement requires a mental effort.
To meditate an injury is to commit one.
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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.