The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

Every animal loves itself.

Reason should direct, and appetite obey.

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

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