For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.

A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.

Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.

Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.

More law, less justice.