To hate excellence is to hate the gods.

A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.

One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.

But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.

It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies.

It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush.