The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
We are born poets. we become orators.
More laws, less justice.
No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.
We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.
I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.