Habituation puts to sleep the eye of our judgment.
Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.
Report followeth not all goodness, except difficulty and rarity be joined thereto.
I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them; we should accept them.