It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

There are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and these are to be valued for their own sake; whereas those kinds of knowledge which are useful in business are to be deemed necessary, and exist for the sake of other things.

The greatest victory is over self.

Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.