Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave.
If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.
To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.
Music is an incitement to love.
The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.