We know the good, we apprehend it clearly; but we can't bring it to achievement.
The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.
When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.