We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.

Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.

Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.