What is dignity without honesty?
Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.
Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.
As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.
In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.