The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.

Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.

Unjust rule does not last forever.

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

You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.

Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right." "True happiness is ... to enjoy the present" "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.