He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
Work makes a callus against grief.
Frugality includes all the other virtues.
Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)
They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.
For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.