When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.