There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.

Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend.

Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety and surfeit.

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.