Though laughter is allowable, a horse-laugh is abominable.
Let the punishment match the offense.
Men of different tastes have different pursuits.
There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.
Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.
If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.