Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.

If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind; if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed; and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect.

Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.