Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.

It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.

Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.