This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.
If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.
When they remain silent, they cry out.
After victory, you have more enemies.
I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.
I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting.
Always the same thing.
Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right.
A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow.
No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.
Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.
An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.
I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.
The beginnings of all things are small.
The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.
It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world’s opinion of himself.
The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.
The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.