Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.

A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.

We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to our own concerns.

Who so hath his mind on taking, hath it no more on what he taketh.

Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?

For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.

There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation.