No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy.

While the sick man has life, there is hope.

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.

Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.

Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.