If I only have the will to be grateful, I am so.

Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.

The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.

It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.

Revenge is an inhuman word.

Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for thou canst bear ill language with ease, and return it with pleasure; but to me it is unusual to hear, and disagreeable to speak it." There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.