It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these will flow from the breast of a true man, as streams that issue from the living fountain.

He (Cato) never gave his opinion in the Senate upon any other point whatever, without adding these words, "And, in my opinion Carthage should be destroyed." ["Delenda est Carthago."]

Come back with your shield - or on it

Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.

Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them.

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.