No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.

Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.

The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.

A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.

There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.

Pride dwells in the thought; the tongue can have but a very little share in it.