Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates.
It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
You cannot analyze a kiss any more than you can dissect the fragrance of flowers.
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
When a young man begins to go down hill everything seems to be greased for the occasion.
Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.