Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.
The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.
I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.
Virtue is its own reward.
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest.