There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.
The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.
The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.
He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves
As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.