It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
The way to good conduct is never too late.
A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of the reckless mob move not.
Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.