Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.
To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.
Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
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.