Everything is alive... Everything is interconnected.

If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot die wretchedly.

Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself. They learn that they have to defend their own bodies and persons lives from violence of any and every kind by all means within their power.