To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.

Tomorrow will give us something to think about

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

There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings.

The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.