The best remedy for disturbances is to let them run their course, for so they quiet down.
When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.
All men are idolators, some of fame, others of self-interest, most of pleasure.
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
The more merit, the less affection.