Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.

Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.

Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving.

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?

It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.