The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.

Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.

The human heart becomes softened by hearing of instances of gentleness and consideration.

Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.

Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.

A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress.

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.