In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.

These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.

On the subject of the nature of the gods, the first question is Do the gods exist or do the not? It is difficult you may say to deny that they exist. I would agree if we were arguing the matter in a public assembly, but in a private discussion of this kind, it is perfectly easy to do so.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

All soils are not fertile.

History is the teacher of life