No one has leave to sin.
A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.