We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

We have been born once and there can be no second birth. Fir all eternity we shall no longer be. But you, although you are not master of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness.

Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but to you: certainly we are a great enough audience for each other.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency.

Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful.

The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.