He who eats my bread, does my will.

An angry look on the face is wholly against nature. If it be assumed frequently, beauty begins to perish, and in the end is quenched beyond rekindling.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose; and to look to nothing else, not even for a moment, except to reason; and to be always the same, in sharp pains, on the occasion of the loss of a child, and in long illness.

No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.

The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life