Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.

One hand washes the other.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.

Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.