"Either never, or very seldom, do the quiet actions in life appear to be better than the quick and energetic ones."

"No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern."

"To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man."

"Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends."