God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.

What can they suffer that do not fear to die?

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.

A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can."

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.

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.

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