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

A gentleman is not disturbed by anything

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.