Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.

Take charge of your thoughts. You can do what you will with them

Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object loved; so that he passes a wrong judgment on what is just, good and beautiful, thinking that he ought always to honor what belongs to himself in preference to truth. For he who intends to be a great man ought to love neither himself nor his own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by himself, or by another.

The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'