The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.
Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.