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

In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

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.

There were few who preferred honor to money.

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

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