“Bonis nocet, qui malis parcit. He harms the good (people) who spares the evil.”

“He who spares the wicked injures the good.”

“He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.”

“Non qui parum habet, sed qui plus cupit pauper est.”

“It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.”

“There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.”

“Consider the whole world reconnoitre individuals j who is there whose life is not taken up with providing for to morrow Do you ask what harm there is in this An infinite deal for such men do not live but are about to live they defer every thing from day to day however circumspect we are life will still outrun us.”