Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions.

I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget.

Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.

He who suffers, remembers.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.