When one is transported by rage, it is best to observe attentively the effects on those who deliver themselves over to the same passion.

It was not important how many enemies there are, but where the enemy is

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.

When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that time had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

Instead of using medicine, better fast today.