Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.
God has joined the innocent with the guilty.
Better one thorn pluck'd out than all remain.
You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear.
The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).