He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination.

He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.

There is no evil that does not offer inducements. Vices tempt you by the rewards which they offer.

It is opportunity that makes the thief.