Let every man practice the art that he knows best.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

I am never less alone than when alone.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.

It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.