Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.

There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.

Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.