Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against life's ills.

Nothing is rarer than real goodness.

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it.

Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.

Everyone blames his memory, no one blames his judgment.