If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.

The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth.

Politicians neither love nor hate.

Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.

Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.

For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.