A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.
Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.
Saving the virtues includes all other advantages.
Man must suffer to be wise.
What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?
There is nothing God cannot do.
It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.
The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.
For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.
It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.
Let us not go over the old ground but rather prepare for what is to come.
The works of nature must all be accounted good.
Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another’s expense.
There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.
The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible.
More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.
An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.
The wise man never loses his temper.
All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.
You may never be less alone than when you are alone.