Let the soldier yield to the civilian.

What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor?

For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.

Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.

Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.