To meditate an injury is to commit one.

Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well.

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.

He who is everywhere is nowhere.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.

I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.