Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.

We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!

Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of the sea, so the pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. For it maintains its balance, and over all that happens it throws its own complexion, because it is more powerful than external circumstances.

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

You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.