To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget.

This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common.

Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.

A man has no enemy worse than himself.