What is permissible is not always honorable.

Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

The whole of virtue consists in its practice.

I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.

Friends are proved by adversity.

The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.