“What were once vices are the fashion of the day.”

Many things have fallen only to rise higher.

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.

He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.

You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.

No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

It is not goodness to be better than the worst.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Be not dazzled by beauty, but look for those inward qualities which are lasting.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.