That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

That which is never too often repeated, is never sufficiently learned.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.