As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled with knowledge but steeped in it.

To the stars through difficulties.

Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.

A hated government does not long survive.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

As was his language so was his life.