Everything in art is but a copy of nature.

To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none

Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.

We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one; for living a long life requires only good fortune, but living a full life requires character. Long is the life that is fully lived; it is fulfilled only when the mind supplies its own good qualities and empowers itself from within.

He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.