We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.

No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.

I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.

What if a man save my life with a draught that was prepared to poison me? The providence of the issue does not at all discharge the obliquity of the intent. And the same reason holds good even in religion itself. It is not the incense, or the offering that is acceptable to God, but the purity and devotion of the worshipper.

Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory.

For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.