We are deceived by the appearance of right.
Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.
Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.
Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
Most virtue lies between two vices.