If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.

When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.