The wise man will not pardon any crime that ought to be punished, but he will accomplish, in a nobler way, all that is sought in pardoning. He will spare some and watch over some, because of their youth, and others on account of their ignorance. His clemency will not fall short of justice, but will fulfill it perfectly.

Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.

Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.

We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.

That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.