It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favourable to him.

As was his language so was his life.

It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.

Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.

He will live ill who does not know how to die well.

Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.