It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect.
There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.
The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.
Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome.
I teach that all men are mad.