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 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.
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.