Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.

No one has leave to sin.

Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.

The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.

It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.

Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.

No sane man will dance.