The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.
Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.
You will die not because you're ill, but because you're alive.
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law