Real improvement is of slow growth only.
Modesty forbids what the law does not.
Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.