Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue
Wit is the flower of the imagination.
Bad beginnings, bad endings.
Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.
The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.