Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

According to convention there is a sweet and a bitter, a hot and a cold, and according to convention, there is an order. In truth, there are atoms and a void.

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

Soul and intellect are just the same things.

Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom.

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.