It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature has laid the foundations or sown the seeds of the virtues. We are born to them all, all of us, and when a person comes along with the necessary stimulus, then those qualities of the personality are awakened, so to speak, from their slumber.

That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.

The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.

The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.

Man is a reasoning Animal.

So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.