Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.

I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

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.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.

Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.