When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy.

The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.

He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.

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.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.