Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
Water and our necessary food are the only things that wise men must fight for.
Character is simply habit long continued.
Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.
The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.