A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

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

What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor?

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.

Leisure with dignity.

Every animal loves itself.