The most regular and most perfect soul in the world has but too much to do to keep itself upright from being overthrown by its own weakness.

The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.

Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.

The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.

Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.

Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.

Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past.