Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

Do everything like someone is gazing at you.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Injustice is not evil in itself, but only in the fear and apprehension that one will not escape those who have been set up to punish the offense.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

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.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.