There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.

Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.

As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.

When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.

Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.

Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell of a lately extinguished lamp is enough to cause a miscarriage. And to think that from such a frail beginning a tyrant or butcher may be born! You who trust in your physical strength, who embrace the gifts of fortune and consider yourself not their ward but their son, you who have a domineering spirit, you who consider yourself a god as soon as success swells your breast, think how little could have destroyed you!

Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.