Apples taste sweetest when they're going.

The profit on a good action is to have done it.

Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore.

Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen do torture all the more.

If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

We need someone, I say, on whom our character may mould itself: you'll never make the crooked straight without a ruler.

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Even if it is to be, what end do you serve by running to meet distress?

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.