For he who gives no fuel to fire puts it out, and likewise he who does not in the beginning nurse his wrath and does not puff himself up with anger takes precautions against it and destroys it.

Nature and wisdom never are at strife.

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

Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

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

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.