Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole.

He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is received without gratitude.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king, so tyranny, which is the worst of governments, is necessarily the farthest removed from a well-constituted form; oligarchy is little better, for it is a long way from aristocracy, and democracy is the most tolerable of the three.

God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose

Every realm of nature is marvelous.