Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.

When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.

Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that time had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.