The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities.
It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.