When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
The real friend is another self.
Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense.
Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.
For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.