Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Not to know what happened before means to remain forever a child.

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.

For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow