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

To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.

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

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.

An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned. It is, however, more advantageous to absolve an innocent than not to prosecute a guilty man.