A good mind is a lord of a kingdom.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.

Live among others as if God beheld you; speak to God as if others were listening.

The gladiator is formulating his plan in the arena or essentially Too late.