Necessity gives the law and does not itself receive it.

Excessive severity misses its own aim.

To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.

Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir.

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.

A loss, of which we are ignorant, is no loss.