God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones..

A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him..

Courage comes by being brave; fear comes by holding back..

A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint..

If you would live innocently, seek solitude..

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness..

He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense..

It is folly to censure him whom all the world adores..

A friend must not be injured, even in jest..

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed..

He gets through too late who goes too fast..

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself..

He who flees from trial confesses his guilt..

Successful guilt is the bane of society.

To have the universe bear one company would be a great consolation in death..

To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent..

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force..

To forget the wrongs you receive, is to remedy them..

The future struggles that it may not become the past..

If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft..

There is no need of spurs when the horse is running away..