Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement.
When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
A man's ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained, his ability also is sound and sober. Conversely, when the one degenerates, the other is contaminated.