Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.
For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven.
Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.