Man must suffer to be wise.
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.