It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

What can they suffer that do not fear to die?

Neither blame or praise yourself.

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.

There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.