No evil is without its compensation.
Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.