In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.

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.

To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.

Now the myths represent the Gods themselves and the goodness of the Gods subject always to the distinction of the speakable and the unspeakable, the revealed and the unrevealed, that which is clear and that which is hidden: since, just as the Gods have made the goods of sense common to all, but those of intellect only to the wise, so the myths state the existence of Gods to all, but who and what they are only to those who can understand.

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