The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.

Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

We are not born for ourselves alone.

We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.