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.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.

Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.

It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.