It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
The great soul surrenders itself to fate.
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?
The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.
All art is an imitation of nature.