Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected.

For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words.

There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.

He (Cato) never gave his opinion in the Senate upon any other point whatever, without adding these words, "And, in my opinion Carthage should be destroyed." ["Delenda est Carthago."]

Instead of using medicine, better fast today.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot.