Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

The wise man never loses his temper.

It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

That he who hath the loan of money has not repaid it, and he who has repaid has not the loan; but he who has acknowledged a kindness has it still, and he who has a feeling of it has requited it.

We are not born for ourselves alone.

Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.