Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness.
Vice is but a nurse of agonies.
Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.
For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world.
Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.
Valor is abased by too much loftiness.