Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors.
Mind is the partial side of men; the heart is everything.
The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes a Titus or Marc Aurelius; the people is often Nero, but never Marc Aurelius.
Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due consideration.
The methods that help a man acquire a fortune are the very ones that keep him from enjoying it.
If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.