It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.
Necessity is stronger than duty.
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.
We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.