The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.
It is not manly to turn one's back on fortune.
No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
All art is an imitation of nature.
The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.