For The Mind Is All The Easier

Forbidden Pleasures Alone Are Loved Immoderately; When Lawful, They Do Not Excite Desire.

Fear Of The Future Is Worse Than One's Present Fortune.

Virtue, Though She Gets Her Beginning From Nature, Yet Receives Her Finishing Touches From Learning.

Without Natural Gifts Technical Rules Are Useless.

(slaughter) Means Blood And Iron. [lat., Coedes Videtur Significare Sanguinem Et Ferrum.]