Let us strive the more earnestly therefore to lengthen out our span of life-- life that is poured out like water and falls as the leaf-- if not by action (the means to which lie in another's power), yet in any case by study and research; and since it is not granted us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.

Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people.

And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.

They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied.

There were some so afraid of death that they prayed for death.

Fear is a feeling that is stronger than love.