Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me; he does me most good when he does himself good.

Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.

I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other