All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.
A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.
Wit is educated insolence.
A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.
Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.
The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.