Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.

I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.

The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.

To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.