Instead of using medicine, better fast today.
Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.
The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.
The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.