If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.
Genius is fostered by industry.
Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.
The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.
Friends are proved by adversity.
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.
Nothing is more becoming in a great man than courtesy and forbearance.
It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.
In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done.
All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.
In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.
Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.
The more peculiarly his own a man’s character is, the better it fits him.
There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.
I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.
Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.
All things are full of God.
Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good.
Hunger is the best sauce.