The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.