“What can be more delightful than to have some one to whom you can say everything with the same absolute confidence as to yourself?”

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

In times of war, the law falls silent.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

Life is nothing without friendship.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.

To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.

maybe all we need is some good music, good company, and bad dancing to remind us what it is to be alive

I built a company at the same time I built a career.

Successful people choose growth over the company.

Involving yourself with the wrong people can stunt your growth.

Avoid people who drain your positivity and dim your light.

Be careful of the ones that always wanna get you high, cause when the time comes, that one’ll let you die.

The company you keep has a large influence on the situations you bring to yourself. Birds of a feather flock together.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.