Friendship multiplies blessings and...soothes the soul.

Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.

There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which you have even if you have nothing else.

Knowledge without courage is sterile.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.