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.

Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that of ourselves; solitude relieves us when we are sick of company, and conversation when we are weary of being alone, so that the one cures the other. There is no man so miserable as he that is at a loss how to use his time

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.

Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.

He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.

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