I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.
Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.
Modesty forbids what the law does not.
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.
The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.