Come back with your shield - or on it

Whenever anything is spoken against you that is not true, do not pass by or despise it because it is false; but forthwith examine yourself, and consider what you have said or done that may administer a just occasion of reproof.

The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.

...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage

It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die.

To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.

Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities.