Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance

Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king, so tyranny, which is the worst of governments, is necessarily the farthest removed from a well-constituted form; oligarchy is little better, for it is a long way from aristocracy, and democracy is the most tolerable of the three.

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.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.