What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.
Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.
Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.