As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.

Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.

Each man the architect of his own fate.