Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.