Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.
Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.
The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Either is both, and Both is neither.