A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.

The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Win for yourself that which your fathers have won.

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