Do what you should, not what you may.
He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it
Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers.
For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.
Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.
The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.