You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate 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.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

He has no worse enemy than himself.