May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.
Nothing is ours except time.
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible?
A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.
It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
The gladiator is formulating his plan in the arena or essentially Too late.
A great fortune is a great slavery.
But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.