Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.

The largest part of goodness is the will to become good.

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.

The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand

If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.