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

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

For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

Foreign lady once remarked to the wife of a Spartan commander that the women of Sparta were the only women in the world who could rule men. "We are the only women who raise men," the Spartan lady replied.

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.

As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity.