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

We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

Proper listening is the foundation of proper living.

There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend.

Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.

It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

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.