Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

I hate all children of precocious talent.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means.