No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.

...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.

Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.

Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.

Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.