Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.