Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.

For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

Nothing is more disgraceful than insincerity.