Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.

For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity.

There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

The whole of virtue consists in its practice.

The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.