If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.

For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.

The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and circuses!

Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon length of days as one of the least of nature's gifts; which is able to suffer every kind of hardship, is proof against anger, craves for nothing, and reckons the trials and gruelling labours of Hercules as more desirable blessings than the amorous ease and the banquets and cushions of Sardanapallus. The things that I recommend you can grant to yourself.

Be rich for yourself and poor to your friends.

Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.