Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

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.

The remembrance of past misery is sweet.

Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.