Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Though laughter is allowable, a horse-laugh is abominable.

Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.

Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.