The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.

You talk one way, you live another.

Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few.

He is most powerful who governs himself.

Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.

Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.

Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.