To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

The wise man never loses his temper.

If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

After victory, you have more enemies.

But as to the affection which anyone may have for us, it is the first demand of duty that we do most for him who loves us most; but we should measure affection, not like youngsters, by the ardour of its passion, but rather by its strength and constancy.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.