There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget.

An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy).

Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.