For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well.

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

I do not understand; I pause; I examine.