Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.
Virtue is the truest nobility.
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.
Love not what you are but only what you may become.