We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity.

He will live ill who does not know how to die well.

There is no evil without its compensation.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles; she selects neither house nor fortune; she is satisfied with a human being without adjuncts.

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