Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.

Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own.

A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.

How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit?