In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
Nature abhors annihilation.
We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means.
I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.
Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.
Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.