Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue? |
Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial |
Rules make the learner's path long, examples make it short and successful |
Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success |
Savageness is always due to a sense of weakness |
See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse. |
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. |
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit. |
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one. |
Slavery holds few men fast; the greatest number hold fast their slavery |
Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery. |
So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come. |
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. |
Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure. |
Success consecrates the foulest crimes |