Frugality includes all the other virtues.

I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.

The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

Man is his own worst enemy.