It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.

The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful

In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.