The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. No one is as old as to think he or she cannot live one more year.

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.