“What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.”

“He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.”

“Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.”

“In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.”

“Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.”

“Nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere.(No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.)”

“For he (Cato) gives his opinion as if he were in Plato's Republic, not in Romulus' cesspool.”