Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest.

Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.

No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.