The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

When a Roman was returning from a trip, he used to send someone ahead to let his wife know, so as not to surprise her in the act.

If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.

'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.

Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.

Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.