He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
Light cares speak, great ones are speechless. -Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent.
Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind.
Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.
In every good man a God doth dwell.
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.
Resistance to oppression is second nature.
It’s in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein.
Those alone are wise who know how to love.
The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.
If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.
To rule yourself is the ultimate power.
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many understand?
What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.
The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.
We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. -Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur.