He, who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decides justly, cannot be considered just.

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

It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.

He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.

Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us.

How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.

To govern was to serve, not to rule.