All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.
There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.
The remembrance of past misery is sweet.
Let the soldier yield to the civilian.
Thrift is a great revenue.
For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.
If wisdom be attainable, let us not only win but enjoy it.
I am a Roman citizen.
There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.
Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.
From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world.
There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.
Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.
Can you also, Lucullus, affirm that there is any power united with wisdom and prudence which has made, or, to use your own expression, manufactured man? What sort of a manufacture is that? Where is it exercised? when? why? how?
Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]
I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead. [Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.]
Economy is a great revenue. [Lat., Magnum vectigal est parsimonia.]
The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.
O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]
There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.
He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour.
How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.
Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.
Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.
It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.
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