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

Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity.

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

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

I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.

It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.