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From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world.

Hell is paved with good intentions.

The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.

There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.

To the sick, while there is life there is hope.

The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.

I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

It is better to receive than to do an injury.

Virtue is its own reward.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age.

Justice renders to every one his due.

Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake.

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.