True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.

Great people create great acts of kindness.

Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.

By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.

The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.