Character is long-standing habit.

It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them.

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."]

Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.

Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture a good soil is first sought for, then a skilful husbandman, and then good seed; in the same way nature corresponds to the soil, the teacher to the husbandman, precepts and instruction to the seed.

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.