We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
Man is a reasoning Animal.
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.