A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

A man has no enemy worse than himself.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.