He is most powerful who governs himself.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.
If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.