Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles.
Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.
Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue.