Where fear is, happiness is not.

He who fears from near at hand often fears less.

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Apples taste sweetest when they’re going.