Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.

The world is but a perpetual see-saw.

What a man hates, he takes seriously.

No-one is exempt from speaking nonsense – the only misfortune is to do it solemnly.

There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscience…These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant; and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us; it is the only payment that can never fail. “On Repentance

No wind favors he who has no destined port.

In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.