One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.

What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare.

Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.

Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.

And so do you suppose it must be a piece-work because it has been given to you (and could only be given to you) in pieces?