And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.
No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.
Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?
Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind.
The beginning is half of the whole.
To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.