Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.

A healer of others, himself diseased.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

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.

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.

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