For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

Man's life is ruled by fortune, not by wisdom.

The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.

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.

Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.