The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Whatever begins, also ends.
Nemo tam divos habuit faventes, Crastinum ut possit sibi polliceri. Nobody has ever found the gods so much his friends that he can promise himself another day.
Nullum ad nocendum tempus angustum est malis. No time is too short for the wicked to injure their neighbors.
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.
An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.
If you don’t know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.
Men learn while they teach.
Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life; indulge the body only as far as is needful for health.
The wish for healing has always been half of health.
Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.
Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.