When another is asked a question, take special care not to interrupt to answer it yourself.

To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.

Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.

The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best.