Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than love.
We are forced to respect the gifts of nature, which study and fortune cannot give.
Vice foments war; it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.
One can not be just if one is not humane.
Our opinion of others is not so variable as our opinion of ourselves.
The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.