For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.

I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.

The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.

It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.