Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
Like associates with like.
As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.
The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.
Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.