To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good.
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.
Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.