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

Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man.

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

The wise man never loses his temper.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.