A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.