For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.

Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue.

Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom.

To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.

The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.