Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

The authors of great evils know best how to remove them.

So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence.

When a man's struggle begins within oneself, the man is worth something.

When one is transported by rage, it is best to observe attentively the effects on those who deliver themselves over to the same passion.

Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment.

When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.