Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships.

Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.

Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.

Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.

Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.