Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
A born king is a very rare being.
Even knaves may be made good for something.
It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.
To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.