The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Forgive that you may be forgiven.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.