Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy.
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.