Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.
Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.
Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance.
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution