The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.
Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.
Some laws, though unwritten, are more firmly established than all written laws.