Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.

My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.

Wars, therefore, are to be undertaken for this end, that we may live in peace, without being injured; but when we obtain the victory, we must preserve those enemies who behaved without cruelty or inhumanity during the war.

For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.