If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
I can pardon everybody's mistakes except my own.
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.