In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes.

Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.