Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments "smelled of the lamp," replied, "Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend, do not witness the same labours.

It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others.

He (Cato) never gave his opinion in the Senate upon any other point whatever, without adding these words, "And, in my opinion Carthage should be destroyed." ["Delenda est Carthago."]

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

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

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