Be a pattern to others and then all will go well.

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

The foundation of justice is good faith.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.'

A man has no enemy worse than himself.

Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.