I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it

The anger of those in authority is always weighty.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

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.

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit