To some extent I liken slavery to death.
Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.
Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.
Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.