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

To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

The first man . . . ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds?

Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.

A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare.

The human heart becomes softened by hearing of instances of gentleness and consideration.