An unpopular rule is never long maintained.
Make haste to live, and consider each day a life.
Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.
Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.