The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?
It is wrong not to give a hand to the fallen. This right is common to the whole human race.
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
It is not manly to turn one's back on fortune.
The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.