We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.

A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.

The whole glory of virtue resides in activity.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.

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