You may never be less alone than when you are alone.
This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.
I am never less alone than when alone.
Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.
If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.