To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.

But few prize honour more than money.

The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.

Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.

It is not unlikely, too, that the rejection of God is a kind of punishment: we may well believe that those who knew the Gods and neglected them in one life may in another life be deprived of the knowledge of them altogether. Also those who have worshipped their own kings as gods have deserved as their punishment to lose all knowledge of God.

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.