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.
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.