Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.
Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration.
The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall.
When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.
Life is long if it is full.
A great fortune is a great slavery.