Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.
The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.
Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration.