We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.
There is no castle so strong that it cannot be overthrown by money.
Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.
Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.