Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.

If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.

It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.

The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.

We have been born under a monarchy; to obey God is freedom.

A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.