Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed.
Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
Fidelity is the sister of justice.
For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.
We are deceived by the appearance of right.