Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.

Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).

Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.

If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.