A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues

Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for, and with obscurity, for being unenvied

Reason speaks and feeling bites

Neither blame or praise yourself

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little

The whole life of man is but a point of time let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose

The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him

God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse

As Caesar was at supper the discourse was of death - which sort was the best, "That," said he, "which is unexpected

Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth