Education and study, and the favors of the muses, confer no greater benefit on those that seek them than these humanizing and civilizing lessons, which teach our natural qualities to submit to the limitations prescribed by reason, and to avoid the wildness of extremes.

A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service.

The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.

Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind.

It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.

Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety and surfeit.

Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance.