The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.

It is sweet to serve one's country by deeds, and it is not absurd to serve her by words.

It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths.

Before you act, consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.

Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.

Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.

But many mortals, devoted to their stomachs and to sleep, have passed through life untaught and uncouth, like foreign travelers; and of course, contrary to nature, their bodies were a source of pleasure to them, their minds a burden. In the case of such people, I asses their life and death alike, since silence surrounds each. -p4.

He remembered that envy is the concomitant of glory, and thus, the more renowned he became, the greater was his caution and circumspection.

Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own.