Example has far more followers than reason.
Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.
He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.
Justice, not the majority, should rule.
If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.