The finest pleasure is kindness to others.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.

Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.

Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises.

Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.

Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.