To philosophize is to learn to die.
The desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their need. Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at or hit.
The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.
Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
Women are more susceptible to pain than to pleasure.