Even in adversity ‘tis wise to yield to reason’s dictates. (View Highlight)
For whoso is not used to taste of sorrow’s cup, though he bears it, vet it galls him when he puts his neck within the yoke; far happier would he be dead than alive, for life of honour reft is toil and trouble. (View Highlight)
ye who harm your friends and think no more of it, if ye can but say a word to win the mob. (View Highlight)
Is it not then strange that poor land, when blessed by heaven with a lucky year, yields a good crop, while that which is good, if robbed of needful care, bears but little increase; yet ‘mongst men the knave is never other than a knave, the good man aught but good, never changing for the worse be- cause of misfortune, but ever the same? (View Highlight)
Good train- ing doubtless gives lessons in good conduct, (View Highlight)
Numbers are a fearful thing, and joined to craft a desperate foe. (View Highlight)
for this is the interest alike of individual and state, that the wrong- doer be punished and the good man prosper. (View Highlight)
Custom determines even our natural ties, making the most bitter foes friends, and re- garding as foes those who formerly were friends. (View Highlight)
there is not in the world a single man free; for he is either a slave to money or to fortune, or else the people in their thousands or the fear of public prosecution prevents him from following the dictates of his heart. (View Highlight)
For where liability to justice coincides with heaven’s law, there is ruin fraught with death and doom. (View Highlight)
if a man’s deeds had been good, so should his words have been; if, on the other hand, evil, his words should have be- traved their unsoundness, (View Highlight)