If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.
Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.
If you desire many things, many things will seem few.