It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
They make a desert and call it peace.