Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.

For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.

There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.

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

A home without books is a body without soul.

Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.