For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

Though laughter is allowable, a horse-laugh is abominable.