What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

To live long it is necessary to live slowly.

He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.

Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.