We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.

Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.

Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.

Something that can never be learnt too thoroughly can never be said too often.

Dignity increases more easily than it begins.

I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.