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

Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.

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

Souls that have lived in virtue are in general happy, and when separated from the irrational part of their nature, and made clean from all matter, have communion with the gods and join them in the governing of the whole world. Yet even if none of this happiness fell to their lot, virtue itself, and the joy and glory of virtue, and the life that is subject to no grief and no master are enough to make happy those who have set themselves to live according to virtue and have achieved it.

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

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

The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.