All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.

But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.

A small state increases by concord; the greatest falls gradually to ruin by dissension.

Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.