After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.

No noble thing can be done without risks.

We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.

A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.

I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.

All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.

The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can.