Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.
If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.