For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

To live long it is necessary to live slowly.

We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.