Instead of using medicine, better fast today.

To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.

Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

Of the land which the Romans gained by conquest from their neighbours, part they sold publicly, and turned the remainder into common; this common land they assigned to such of the citizens as were poor and indigent, for which they were to pay only a small acknowledgment into the public treasury. But when the wealthy men began to offer larger rents, and drive the poorer people out, it was enacted by law that no person whatever should enjoy more than five hundred acres of ground.